Delvige Quotes & Sayings

The religionists are the enemies of liberty, and the friends of liberty attack religion; the high-minded and the noble advocate bondage, and the meanest and most servile preach independence; honest and enlightened citizens are opposed to all progress, whilst men without patriotism and without principle put themselves forward as the apostles of civilization and intelligence. Has such been the fate of the centuries which have preceded our own? and has man always inhabited a world like the present, where all things are out of their natural connections, where virtue is without genius, and genius without honor; where the love of order is confounded with a taste for oppression, and the holy rites of freedom with a contempt of law; where the light thrown by conscience on human actions is dim, and where nothing seems to be any longer forbidden or allowed, honorable or shameful, false or true? — Alexis De Tocqueville

(When someone asked Augustine what God was doing before creation, he replied that God was making hell for people who ask silly questions.) — N. T. Wright

The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence. — Walter Savage Landor

That's very hard because there's three of them that mean a LOT to me equally. 'Lissie's Heart Murmur' was one of the first songs that we ever wrote - it was one of the first songs, at the very very very beginning of our band and I've always wanted to see and hear that song recorded and turned into something and it finally was and is! — Theresa Wayman

Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again. — Walter J. Phillips

Only reckless confidence in a Source greater than ourselves can empower us to forgive the woulds inflicted by others. — Brennan Manning

Ah, thou hast made my heart captive in the endless meshes of thy music, my master! — Rabindranath Tagore